New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Thick octavo, 504 pages. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Elizabeth David is now rightly considered one of the greatest of culinary writers. It was in this book that her full voice was first truly heard. A book to be read as much as cooked from, and then read again. With some stains to text and with publisher's edgeworn blue cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Priced accordingly.....

Frankfurt a. M. Verlag von J. Kauffmann, 1901. Thick octavo (23 x 16 cm.), vi, 926, [2],16 pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION of this important German- Jewish cookbook. In their excellent survey of historic German-Jewish cooking, Gabrielle and Sonya Gropman state that Elsasser's is "a book for Jewish housewives, and holds important secrets of the German-Jewish kitchen, such as a section of acceptable fat substitutions in a land of pork.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Small octavo, 276, [4] pages. Ads. First edition. Recipes for blanc mange, picnic dishes, griddle cakes, and more, interspersed with "Familiar Talks" on subjects from country-boarding to flies and dish-washing, written by noted novelist and cookbook author, Marion Harland, pen name of Virginia Terhune. In blind-stamped and red and black decorated brown cloth. Cover bumped, rubbed, and slightly frayed. Internally age-toned throughout. Generally good.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1877. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 376, [8] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings in the text, and two plates of table settings in the front. Second printing; originally issued in 1876. An aspirational cookbook for America's burgeoning middle classes. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving is designed to provide recipes and instructions for elegant entertaining on moderate means. Internally sound, with.....

Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....